Voltaire Quotes, Boldness And Courage Quotes

Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

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A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

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Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

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In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

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We only half live when we only half think.

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Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

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Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

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A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most

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History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

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When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

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